According to the evaluation methodologies of ITU, the basic evaluation characteristics and assessment methods for wireless networks can be studied based on system level simulations. In the first part of the talk, a heterogeneous Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless system level simulator will be introduced and thoughts on how such a simulation environment can be extended to a fifth generation (5G) wireless system simulator will be presented.
The emergence of the Tactile Internet is believed to be a true paradigm shift in which a sufficiently responsive, reliable and intelligent networking paradigm enables delivery of physical information remotely. 5G is an important enabler of the Tactile Internet as it will need to deliver the required edge-connectivity. Because the Tactile Internet will be servicing critical aspects of society, it will need to be ultra-reliable, support very low latency and short end-to-end delays in the order of milliseconds, and have sufficient capacity to allow large numbers of devices to communicate with each other simultaneously and autonomously. The second part of this talk describes a holistic view on emerging 5G networks and how it can be an enabler of the Tactile Internet.
Dr. Meryem Simsek received her Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany in 2008, holding a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation which is granted to the outstanding 0.5% of all students in Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. degree on reinforcement learning based inter-cell interference coordination in heterogeneous LTE-Advance networks from the same university in 2013. In 2013, she was a post-doctoral visiting scientist at Florida International University. Since 2014, she is a group leader at the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communication Systems at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. Her main research interests include resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks, 5G wireless systems, wireless network design and optimization, self-organizing networks, and the tactile internet. Dr. Simsek won the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize 2015. Since June 2015, she is chairing the IEEE ComSoc Tactile Internet technical sub-committee and has initiated the IEEE P1918.1 working group and is serving as the secretary of this working group. In addition, she is leading the ETSI IP6 work item on IPv6 based Tactile Internet. In October 2016, she joined ICSI Berkeley to start a new wireless research group.